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REPORT ABUSIVE REPLY
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KABAR fighting knife
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Poster Handle
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Anonymous Coward |
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For what it's worth, in the knife sharpening kit from lowes, they have besides the coarse and fine diamond hones, but a tri-angular stone that is supposed tyo shrpen the nooks and cranies of the hollow ground knife style blade.
I found you can tell how sharp it is by looking at the knife edge straight down. With the knife sharpening kit, I usually get the blade as sharp as the round knife I use to sliced my leathers.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 665684The easy part to sharpening a knife is material removal. The hard part is how to get rid of that rolled edge that you will get with any steel, especially Buck knives...those for some reason have given me fits. The idea is maintain a constant angle, so unless you're gifted like a an artist, buy one of those sharpening kits that clamp the blade and you have to guide the stone thru a fixed angle slot...These do work, but like I said above, you will wonder why it isn't as sharp as it could be, when you do everything correct... The answer is under the microscope...You will see what looks like a film of metal that is "rolled" over the real cutting edge.. Stropping, either on a leather belt, or on a spinning wheel gets rid of this, allowing you to have that sharp surface that is hidden underneath.
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